Myra Louise Taylor

Myra Louise Taylor (September 24, 1881 – January 8, 1939) was nursing superintendent at St John's General Hospital in Newfoundland from 1916 for more than twenty years.

She was born in Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, the youngest of nine children of Eliza Hannah Manston Calpin and Richard Henegar Taylor.

She resigned her position in October 1911 to study midwifery at Queen Charlotte Maternity Hospital, London where Taylor received the diploma of the Central Midwives Board of England and Wales.

When the SS Newfoundland sealing disaster happened she helped set up a temporary hospital where she and other Brigade members cared for survivors.

[7] Taylor wanted to improve conditions for nurses by reducing their daily hours from fourteen to eight, as happened in other parts of North America, but this was not considered possible by the hospital.

[8] In 1935 she received a King George V Silver Jubilee Medal and was congratulated on this by the British College of Nurses, with which she corresponded occasionally.